WordNet
n. a system that uses coordinates to establish position [syn: coordinate system, frame of reference, reference frame]
Usage examples of "reference system".
Mildred had made the point that if VISAR could create just about any sensory illusion that might be desired, it should be just as capable of putting together a reference system made up of things that she understood, as one incorporating all those annoying menus, options, icons, and incomprehensible boxes that computer people understood.
Even though we are traveling very fast with respect to the Sun, our speed is puny when the reference system is our local group of stars.
Clarissa had warned that it might happen without an experienced copilot-navigator to calibrate the on-board reference system to the shifting satellite pattern as the flyer descended.
At a guess, Lews was doing a lookup on snowball in some sort of reference system.
The transition had taken place-usual-without any appreciable delay of time, although Arkonide science had proved that there was another factor present in the five-dimensional reference system which could bear-for simplicity's sake-the connotation of time.
This worked very well in the Library, where taste had become a precision reference system, but was less useful in a room occasionally containing bus bars throbbing with several thousand thaums.
They were still essentially in zero gravity, and the brain could select any reference system it pleased.